Population Structure of Finless Porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) Discovered off Coastal Waters, Republic of Korea.

ABSTRACT: The finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides Cuvier, 1829) is distributed in the coastal waters of Asia, throughout Indonesia to the east, and as far north as the Taiwan Strait. The finless porpoise has been declared critically endangered by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), and in 2017 was rated vulnerable on the IUCN Red Threatened Species List. Since this species is distributed near the coast and has many interactions with humans, effective conservation of the species requires further studies into their genetic diversity and population. In this study, 45 samples were obtained from bycatch or stranded individuals in the East, South, and West Seas, where Korean porpoises were mainly distributed from 2017-2021. We compared 473 bp mtDNA sequences from the control region. Pairwi

SUBMITTER: Ku JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9602366 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature